YAPC::Europe Day 3

The time is 04:14 AM and we are in the train heading home from Münich atthe YAPC::Europe conference.

The conference has been a good experience socially and Perl-wise for meand I guess the rest of the Copenhagen Perl Mongers.

- I have gotten ideas for a few new modules
- I have signed up as a smoke tester for perl5
- I have restarted and had a little progress in some of my older projects

So all in all the confenrence has been a good catalyst.

I consider myself very open and I get to talk to alot of people, but Ihate the vacuum which arises at a conference when the day is over andall the presentations have been made.

The lack of social events have inspired me to think about starting thepm4p (Perl Modules 4 the People) group internally within the Perlcommunity, which should be an sub division in the Perl community actingduring YAPC's for people not being speakers and P5Ps and should becapable of arranging more socially oriented events to strengthen thenetwork between ordinary Perl users and developers.

I do not think this should be tthat hard, since all there is to shouldbe to arrange a restaurent, bar or cafe, where people can meet up at theend of a conference day.

So for the next YAPC::Europe I will try to present the concept of pm4pfor the rest of us.

The variety of subjects which are dealt with at a conference likeYAPC::Europe have ensured me that I could be a possible speaker and whenthe next YAPC::Europe is getting close I think I will submit anabstract, what the topic will be is not known by now, but I can think ofmany thinks which could be possible topics for talks. So for the nextYAPC::Europe an abstract will be made for when the call for papers isissued.

The discussion have been going on internally in the cph.pm, whether wecould host a YAPC::Europe venue sometime in the future and I think weall agree on that it would both be fun and possible to do so, but we areprobably not ready just yet as a PM.

So cph.pm will in the near future possible work on some of our othercommon projects, like our YAS donation project (the 'Cod-a-thon') andother things such as a more active profile at the LinuxForum inCopenhagen, which could prove to be a very good training in both hostingYAPC::Europe and speaking at a conference. At last years LinuxForum, CPH.PMwere only represented as a BOF, which is far from what should be the goal ofwhat CPH.PM should and could do.

Anyway I am personlly keen on going to the YAPC::Europe next year, whereeverit is going to be held (Paris?).

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